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Harrison Ford, like so many of the characters he plays, is a take-charge kind of guy. Before he agrees to a movie project, he analyzes it from all angles. As a result, audiences get the impression that he's thought a great deal about his character; he could never be accused of just phoning it in. A case in point is his new film, "What Lies Beneath," in which he and Michelle Pfeiffer worked together for the first time. He plays a college professor/scientist, and she's his wife. At the start of the movie, their daughter leaves home for college.

The summer screamer "What Lies Beneath" looks like it might do for bathtubs what "Psycho" did for showers, says TV Guide Online. The hit film's shocking climax, involving Michelle Pfeiffer and a tub full of water, certainly had a negative effect on its star. "I love baths and I still take them, but I have to be honest -- I don't enjoy them in the same way that I used to," says Pfeiffer, 43. "I'm not nervous, it's just not quite the same." Not helping matters was the fact that, except for tubby-time, the three-time Oscar nominee wasn't very fond of water to begin with.

Harrison Ford may be the star of the modern-day ghost story "What Lies Beneath," but that doesn't necessarily mean he likes horror movies. Or even watches them. "The last scary movie I went to and enjoyed was `Bambi,'" Ford says in a recent interview. "I was about 6 years old, and it scared the bejesus out of me." "What Lies Beneath" is Ford's first real foray into the supernatural, unless you count the occult elements in the Indiana Jones series. He says he took the role because it's different from what he's done lately and allowed him to work with director Bob Zemeckis and co-star Michelle Pfeiffer.

"The Age of Innocence" (Martin Scorsese, 1993) at 10:05 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Encore. Scorsese's film of the Edith Wharton novel "The Age of Innocence" is a great, velvety, beautiful anachronism. It's a movie almost drunk on romance, literature and cinema, a splendid period picture that keeps rashly breaking rules and boundaries. Along with its lustrous, nervy evocation of the vanished realm of upper-class 1870s Manhattan, this movie seethes with a quiet, scathing condemnation of what that world really stood for. The love of decent homebody lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis)

Reports that actress Michelle Pfeiffer was turned away from Britain's Millennium Dome were nothing but an "urban myth," a spokeswoman for the attraction said Wednesday. British newspapers reported this week that the U.S. star had been offered an apology and an open invitation to visit the Dome, in southeast London, after being turned away when she attempted an incognito visit with her two children. But by Wednesday it appeared the Dome, which has been battling adverse publicity since its inception, was the victim of ill-founded gossipand media myth.

Written in the late 1980s when the height of the AIDS crisis had suddenly turned the honorable one-night stand into a game of Russian roulette, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" is one of the most unashamedly romantic plays of our dangerous contemporary era. Making a rare excursion into blue-collar territory, playwright Terrence McNally took pains to make his pair of troubled lovers as mundane as possible. Neither of them is in their first blush of youth and both have suffered their share of pains, disappointments and thwarted dreams.

Michelle Pfeiffer had trouble relating to the role of Beth Cappadora, which she plays in a movie version of "The Deep End of the Ocean," the Jacquelyn Mitchard novel about a mother who loses her son in a crowded hotel lobby. "At first I thought, `Why is she such a ditz?' " the actress said. Then something shocked Pfeiffer one day as she dropped off her kids, 5-year-old Claudia and 4-year-old John Henry, at school. "I had to get something and turned and said to Claudia, `Now watch your brother,' and it struck me," she said.

Al Pacino plays a law-firm chief who literally has the devil dancing in him in "The Devil's Advocate," the 1997 movie that makes its HBO debut at 7 p.m. Saturday. Here's a quiz on some of the actor's many other credits: QUESTIONS 1) What was the name of Pacino's character in the "Godfather" films? 2) Name the real-life New York City police detective, played by Pacino in a 1973 movie, who blew the whistle on corruption within his department. 3) Pacino had the same leading lady in "Scarface" (1983)

Let's call it a tale of two White House holiday parties. A week ago, a lot of media-types got bent out of shape when President Clinton and Hillary invited 10,000 or so of their "closest" pals in communications. This cattle-call saw an indignant Larry King, plus others, stand in line for 15 minutes to an hour before being admitted--if they got in at all. The president later apologized. Then there was last weekend's intimate White House party tossed by the Clintons, an event that really counted.